Bio: Jennifer Lennon is a certified Laughter Yoga leader and has been teaching in Boulder, CO since 2010. Her classes are fun, energizing, and uplifting with results that are immediate and speak for themselves. Jennifer’s perspective is one of heart and humor and
her background includes studies in clowning, Circus Yoga, non-violent communication, improvisation, performance, spirituality, and mindfulness training. She feels strongly that we are living in an intelligent, co-creative, and responsive world and that as individuals
we are deeply resourced. She is passionate about creating a world in which individuals express in powerful, connected, and creative ways. Jennifer was born on April Fools Day
and has an inexplicable knack for finding 4-leaf clovers. You can reach her through:
Certifications: Laughter Yoga
Email: jen@jenlennon.com
Phone: 720-454-8282
Web Site:
Laughterglow.com
Workshop Description: This workshop will offer tools to increase your social confidence and become more conscious, creative and effective as an individual and in your groups. Make any group more deeply connected and harmonious. Enhance your charisma. Align with your passions.
Bio: As a Love & Leadership Coach, I collaborate with individuals to create more joy and purpose in their lives, while encouraging the discovery of full potential. I teach MatrixWorks, coaching groups of people to function as living systems. With a background in the performing arts, I remain involved in Boulder’s theater scene, which seems to truly value collaboration over competition. As adjunct faculty at Naropa University, I teach Groups As Living Systems, and serve as support for the Wilderness Solo course. I support humans and organizations to become more resilient and radiant. Whole-heartedly, I: Speak the truth, Love fearlessly, Take risks, Have fun and Aim to be gentle with all of Life.
Certifications: Master of Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, Certified MatrixWorks Teacher
Email:
Phone:
917-520-5780
Web Site:
Workshop Description: Explore the inner world of your energy body through the rainbow spectrum mandala of the chakra system. We will journey through each chakra with guided visualizations, meditations and affirmations to support understanding in order to balance and revitalize these energy centers. Each person will receive customized energy-work along with an affirmation for the chakras that they focus on.
Bio: Laura Rose is a passionate practitioner of the healing arts of bodywork, massage, yoga, and somatic therapies. She has been practicing and refining the art of her "listening touch" since 2000 when she attended the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics where she studied Massage, Polarity Therapy, Reflexology, Acupressure and Reflexology, as well as the Philosophy of Natural Therapeutics, Herbs, Nutrition, and Holistic Healing. Since completing her training, her unquenchable desire to provide deeply transformational healing experiences led her to study Reiki, CranioSacral, Manual Lymph Drainage, Thai Massage, Breema® Bodywork, Hakomi Therapy, Focusing, Meditation, and Yoga. Her main goal in life is to be present, with an open heart
Certification
Natural Therapeutics Specialist, Licensed Massage Therapist, Graduate of the Hakomi Professional Training, Yoga Teacher
In deep play we build relationship and build capacity. In deep play we meet the world with full resource and then go toward the unknown and possibly uncomfortable. In deep play we learn to behave differently and meet the world with more freedom and choice.
You can develop new behavior by finding freedom from compulsion to follow old patterns. Do this by investigating your inner world to discover what is driving those patterns. Those drives live somewhere in your body, and somewhere in your sensations, perceptions, and emotions. Somewhere below your normal conscious awareness.
We will introduce to many practices from the somatic and relational realms which are nourishing and fun AND give you the opportunity to do that discover yourself, make the unconscious conscious and grow beyond previous conditioning.
This is an hour of guided improvisational play time. We will get out of our minds and into our bodies using some unique games and movement studies. Learn to love your body and get comfortable with some unusual group dynamics. Prepare to get weird. This is seriously not a serious affair. This will be the most unorthodox yoga class you’ll ever practice in. Hula hoop portals, partner yoga, dance party, circus shenanigans. We will re-integrate the art of Divine Play through experimental movement and human connection. Re-discover your child-like wonder, will ya?
Biography:Sheryl Sapphire is a circus witch. She fell down the hula hoop portal onto the road of self-transformation about 5 years ago. She has been a dancer for the majority of her known life. She’s a wild woman and about as empathic as they get. She’s sassy, weird and harmless. She is fueled by art and play and movement. If we want to slap labels on her … She would call herself a circus gypsy priestess ninja artist goddess worshipping earth loving conduit of divine play ..dancer.. …. or something. She’s here to share a piece of her heart medicine with you.
Workshop Description: In Contacting the Dark movement, touch, and vocalization are freed of the constraints of vision, verbalization, and social radar. It is a group somatic sensory exploration where you are encouraged to rediscover the joy of shared, creative, and embodied play.
Contacting the Dark is a easy entrance to the soft touch and nourishment that you can sometimes get in Contact Improvisation. It is practiced blindfold and within a safe container. Come discover satisfaction and richness of experience as you Contact the Dark. Please wear comfortable clothing that it is easy to move in.
Find out more at
Or join the FB group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/contactingthedark/
Damian Leuthold LMT - is a somatic counselor, movement educator, manual therapist, event producer, and music and dance performer. He is passionate about bringing people together in fun, vibrant, awakened ways. He has long had a strong interest in sharing his joy in the healing and freedom that comes from increased awareness of the somatic experience. This has lead him to form
Be in Touch where he:
Offers individual manual therapy, aquatic therapy, and somatic counseling sessions
Produces the Deep Play Retreats and Contacting the Dark events
Co-directs the Brook institute’s Integrated Man Program
Holds space for ritual performance, music, and movement
Certifications: LMT, NLC, BodyMind Somanatics
Email: damian@beintouch.us
Phone: 720-310-0273
Web Site:
beintouch.us
Workshop Description: Bodytales is s a creative and healing practice that integrates movement, voice and personal storytelling. This unique form combines elements of dance, theater and expressive arts, and encourages and supports people being in their true, creative, authentic selves. This is a chance to share, be seen, explore, create and express. A super engaging and rich form. COME PLAY with Rani.
Bio: Rani is a long time meditator, dancer & professional massage therapist and bodyworker. She has her Masters degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. Rani has a genuine love and care for people and our humanity. She brings her open heart, warmth, playfulness and years of knowledge and experience to support others to deepen, dive in and delight in the journey of awakening to their aliveness and potential!
Bios:
David Ortolano:: The Founder and Executive Producer of the Boulder International Fringe Festival, David Ortolano brings together a unique sense of ritual with live performance and public events to develop new forms of ensemble practice, influence social change and create significant artistic movements in our culture. His revolutionary techniques are influenced by the Balinese Topeng and Gamelan Ensemble, Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater, Mudra Theater, Dharma Art, Lecoq Physical Theater and a broad range of professional experience in Music, Dance, Theater and Film production. In the past 20 years he has trained and worked professionally as a Producer, Director, Teacher and Multi-Disciplined Performer in many parts of the world including Indonesia, Spain, France, and various parts of the United States and Canada.
Email: david@boulderfringe.com
Phone: 720-526-9114
Meg York:: Recently returned from studying Ottoman Classical and Tzgani (Romani) clarinet styles in Turkey, award winning Meg York has played music for over 30 years. She has a Clarinet Performance Degree from the University of New Mexico, where she also honed Early Music and Flamenco skills. Comfortable with performance practices from Medieval to Avant Guard, she plays with world music masters. She is also a seasoned pit orchestra player for music theater, circus arts, and improvised movement accompaniment. She is also Vice President of Musical Missions of Peace, a non-profit for music preservation and therapy for refugee communities, started for Iraqi populations.
Certifications: Clarinette performance degree, Music Director Evergreen Academy
Email: megaclarinoodle@gmail.com
Phone: 303-803-8321
Web Site: www.megyork.com
www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org
How do we practice residing in our center in the midst of reaching out? How do we harmonize the infinite beautiful energies around us with our own multiplicity? What can we do to cultivate tranquility and quiescence within, so that we may move through life's dynamic changes with a sense of being on a path of peace?
I would like to teach peace qigong as a method to provide participants an experience of embodied knowing that responds to the inquiries above. Qigong is a holistic practice that aligns mind, breath, and movement to restore vitality and clarity. Peace qigong is a form that will support Arise as a community brought together through shared intention, vision, and compassion. It includes a guided visualization that imagines each person's heartbeat connected to the heartbeat of mother earth, connected to the heartbeat of all living beings. Participants will both reach out to feel connection energetically in the field, and draw in to harmonize that energy internally. This course will be appropriate for practitioners of all levels, including those who have never done qigong before. Teaching, questions and answers are possible, but practice that remains focused on direct experience without rational analysis may be more appropriate based on the desires of the group.
Workshop Description: Peace is within us, each and every moment. Please join me for an embodied experience that restores vitality, clarity, and peace through movement, visualization, and breath. Qigong is a simple practice of moving energy intentionally throughout your body and beyond, and requires no previous experience. In peace qigong, you will sense your heartbeat connected to the heartbeat of mother earth, resonating with the heartbeat of all living beings. As you are guided through this form, you will experience harmonization of energies within and around you. This gentle method will help you feel centered and clear, and support our Arise experience by enhancing and uniting our shared intention, vision, and compassion.
Bio: Kathleen McGoey is on an experiential journey in the field of conflict transformation. She currently works as a restorative justice facilitator in Longmont, CO, where she integrates her intuitive practices into the traditional justice system, giving youth and adults the opportunity to take responsibility for harms they’ve caused, and empowering them to make things right. Kathleen believes in human beings’ natural resonance with peace, and would like to help others learn how to approach and address conflict as a platform for transformation. She describes much of her personal journey and dance with peace in a book called Harmonizing Heavens and Earth, A Daoist Shamanic Approach to Peacework.
Certifications: Daoist Dipper Arts School in Lyons, CO
Email: imaneralight@gmail.com
Bio: Jennifer Lennon is a certified Laughter Yoga leader and has been teaching in Boulder, CO since 2010. Her classes are fun, energizing, and uplifting with results that are immediate and speak for themselves. Jennifer’s perspective is one of heart and humor and
her background includes studies in clowning, Circus Yoga, non-violent communication, improvisation, performance, spirituality, and mindfulness training. She feels strongly that we are living in an intelligent, co-creative, and responsive world and that as individuals
we are deeply resourced. She is passionate about creating a world in which individuals express in powerful, connected, and creative ways. Jennifer was born on April Fools Day
and has an inexplicable knack for finding 4-leaf clovers. You can reach her through:
Certifications: Laughter Yoga
Email: jen@jenlennon.com
Phone: 720-454-8282
Web Site:
Laughterglow.com
Workshop Description: Combining elements of Authentic Movement, meditation, and non-judgmental witnessing, we will co-create a fun and safe container in which to to explore a deeper and more embodied connection with your self while relating with others, and allow oneself to be moved by deeper impulses beyond our cognitive, day-to-day mind. No previous experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothes, and be prepared to leave your mental conclusions about how your body wants to move behind.
Bio: Jennifer Peck, LCSW, CMT— With a strong preference for “beginner’s mind”, despite 20 years of experience studying and teaching bodywork, mindfulness, spirituality, dance, and movement, Jennifer provides a container where students feel safe to “come as they are” in their exploration of all things body-mind-spirit related. Jennifer is also a licensed psychotherapist and massage therapist with a private practice in mind-body counseling, coaching, and transformative bodywork.
Certifications: CMT LCSW
Email: willowomoon@yahoo.com
Phone: 303-817-7912
Web Site:
Workshop Description: Body-mind Belly Dance: Enhance your practice, improvisation and choreography. Basic technique in Belly dance is suggested but not required. This workshop is for dancers who are curious about deepening their connection to their dance through the experience of their bodies. Body-Mind Centering offers an “in” to understanding the “minds” of the body systems and their roles in our expression and movement. Combine BMC with Belly dance, rest into your body’s expression, and find new tools for your dance practice. Please wear clothes comfortable for movement both on the ground and standing.
What systems will we explore?
Organs: For sensing weight, fluidity, fullness of presence and support for movement.
Bones: The directionality and structure of the skeletal system supports dynamic use of space and movement.
Endocrine system: The endocrine system is indicated in emotional experience and expression. Does it drive or support expression? Touching into the glands of the endocrine system can support the range of feeling in your dance.
Bio: Andrea believes that dancing can be many things: a way to escape, a way to express, to be aware and to arrive. Embodiment has been her lifelong study and path. Andrea received her MA in Somatic Psychotherapy with a Dance Therapy focus from Naropa University. Her background in dance ranges from Ballet to contemporary and of course Belly dance. Andrea is currently a Somanaut with The Brook Institute and Bodymind Somanautics. Andrea is an intern with the Brook institute, exploring pre and perinatal experience with clients and supporting body-mind integration and greater potency in life.
Workshop Description: This workshop will offer tools to increase your social confidence and become more conscious, creative and effective as an individual and in your groups. Make any group more deeply connected and harmonious. Enhance your charisma. Align with your passions.
Bio: As a Love & Leadership Coach, I collaborate with individuals to create more joy and purpose in their lives, while encouraging the discovery of full potential. I teach MatrixWorks, coaching groups of people to function as living systems. With a background in the performing arts, I remain involved in Boulder’s theater scene, which seems to truly value collaboration over competition. As adjunct faculty at Naropa University, I teach Groups As Living Systems, and serve as support for the Wilderness Solo course. I support humans and organizations to become more resilient and radiant. Whole-heartedly, I: Speak the truth, Love fearlessly, Take risks, Have fun and Aim to be gentle with all of Life.
Certifications: Master of Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, Certified MatrixWorks Teacher
Email:
Phone:
917-520-5780
Web Site:
Clowning is a deep part of the human psyche and a part of all cultures. Clowns serve an important role in many societies throughout history. This workshop will give you a taste of the clown’s world.
Workshop Description: In Contacting the Dark movement, touch, and vocalization are freed of the constraints of vision, verbalization, and social radar. It is a group somatic sensory exploration where you are encouraged to rediscover the joy of shared, creative, and embodied play.
Contacting the Dark is a easy entrance to the soft touch and nourishment that you can sometimes get in Contact Improvisation. It is practiced blindfold and within a safe container. Come discover satisfaction and richness of experience as you Contact the Dark. Please wear comfortable clothing that it is easy to move in.
Find out more at
Or join the FB group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/contactingthedark/
Damian Leuthold LMT - is a somatic counselor, movement educator, manual therapist, event producer, and music and dance performer. He is passionate about bringing people together in fun, vibrant, awakened ways. He has long had a strong interest in sharing his joy in the healing and freedom that comes from increased awareness of the somatic experience. This has lead him to form
Be in Touch where he:
Offers individual manual therapy, aquatic therapy, and somatic counseling sessions
Produces the Deep Play Retreats and Contacting the Dark events
Co-directs the Brook institute’s Integrated Man Program
Holds space for ritual performance, music, and movement
Certifications: LMT, NLC, BodyMind Somanatics
Email: damian@beintouch.us
Phone: 720-310-0273
Web Site:
beintouch.us
John Quigley is an internationally known Artist, Producer, and Activist. As founder of Spectral Q his unique ‘Art Activations’ are a mix of human installation and aerial photography that bring together communities to create large-scale messages for the common good. Focusing on themes of health, human rights, social justice, ecological balance, democracy, and freedom, his work strives to liberate the spirit and inspire unity through creative participation.
He will share his experience creating more than 200 human ‘aerial art’ images involving more than 200,000 people (see www.SpectralQ.com). The images were created on landscapes ranging from the Amazon Rainforest to Antarctic icebergs to cities across the world. His images have been seen by millions of people in hundreds of major news outlets globally.
He will discuss the role of ‘Art Activation’ in mobilizing movements that transform society. He will also reference some of his high profile frontline actions including the 71 day ‘Old Glory’ tree-sit and the 23 day South Central Farm tree-sit with Julia Butterfly Hill and Daryl Hannah as well as his work as an Amazon Ambassador (www.AmazonWatch.org), whale advocate (www.Whaleman.org), and energy activist (Counterspill.org).
Bios:
David Ortolano:: The Founder and Executive Producer of the Boulder International Fringe Festival, David Ortolano brings together a unique sense of ritual with live performance and public events to develop new forms of ensemble practice, influence social change and create significant artistic movements in our culture. His revolutionary techniques are influenced by the Balinese Topeng and Gamelan Ensemble, Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater, Mudra Theater, Dharma Art, Lecoq Physical Theater and a broad range of professional experience in Music, Dance, Theater and Film production. In the past 20 years he has trained and worked professionally as a Producer, Director, Teacher and Multi-Disciplined Performer in many parts of the world including Indonesia, Spain, France, and various parts of the United States and Canada.
Email: david@boulderfringe.com
Phone: 720-526-9114
Meg York:: Recently returned from studying Ottoman Classical and Tzgani (Romani) clarinet styles in Turkey, award winning Meg York has played music for over 30 years. She has a Clarinet Performance Degree from the University of New Mexico, where she also honed Early Music and Flamenco skills. Comfortable with performance practices from Medieval to Avant Guard, she plays with world music masters. She is also a seasoned pit orchestra player for music theater, circus arts, and improvised movement accompaniment. She is also Vice President of Musical Missions of Peace, a non-profit for music preservation and therapy for refugee communities, started for Iraqi populations.
Certifications: Clarinette performance degree, Music Director Evergreen Academy
Email: megaclarinoodle@gmail.com
Phone: 303-803-8321
Web Site: www.megyork.com
www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org
How do we practice residing in our center in the midst of reaching out? How do we harmonize the infinite beautiful energies around us with our own multiplicity? What can we do to cultivate tranquility and quiescence within, so that we may move through life's dynamic changes with a sense of being on a path of peace?
I would like to teach peace qigong as a method to provide participants an experience of embodied knowing that responds to the inquiries above. Qigong is a holistic practice that aligns mind, breath, and movement to restore vitality and clarity. Peace qigong is a form that will support Arise as a community brought together through shared intention, vision, and compassion. It includes a guided visualization that imagines each person's heartbeat connected to the heartbeat of mother earth, connected to the heartbeat of all living beings. Participants will both reach out to feel connection energetically in the field, and draw in to harmonize that energy internally. This course will be appropriate for practitioners of all levels, including those who have never done qigong before. Teaching, questions and answers are possible, but practice that remains focused on direct experience without rational analysis may be more appropriate based on the desires of the group.
Workshop Description: Peace is within us, each and every moment. Please join me for an embodied experience that restores vitality, clarity, and peace through movement, visualization, and breath. Qigong is a simple practice of moving energy intentionally throughout your body and beyond, and requires no previous experience. In peace qigong, you will sense your heartbeat connected to the heartbeat of mother earth, resonating with the heartbeat of all living beings. As you are guided through this form, you will experience harmonization of energies within and around you. This gentle method will help you feel centered and clear, and support our Arise experience by enhancing and uniting our shared intention, vision, and compassion.
Bio: Kathleen McGoey is on an experiential journey in the field of conflict transformation. She currently works as a restorative justice facilitator in Longmont, CO, where she integrates her intuitive practices into the traditional justice system, giving youth and adults the opportunity to take responsibility for harms they’ve caused, and empowering them to make things right. Kathleen believes in human beings’ natural resonance with peace, and would like to help others learn how to approach and address conflict as a platform for transformation. She describes much of her personal journey and dance with peace in a book called Harmonizing Heavens and Earth, A Daoist Shamanic Approach to Peacework.
Certifications: Daoist Dipper Arts School in Lyons, CO
Email: imaneralight@gmail.com
Bio: Jennifer Lennon is a certified Laughter Yoga leader and has been teaching in Boulder, CO since 2010. Her classes are fun, energizing, and uplifting with results that are immediate and speak for themselves. Jennifer’s perspective is one of heart and humor and
her background includes studies in clowning, Circus Yoga, non-violent communication, improvisation, performance, spirituality, and mindfulness training. She feels strongly that we are living in an intelligent, co-creative, and responsive world and that as individuals
we are deeply resourced. She is passionate about creating a world in which individuals express in powerful, connected, and creative ways. Jennifer was born on April Fools Day
and has an inexplicable knack for finding 4-leaf clovers. You can reach her through:
Certifications: Laughter Yoga
Email: jen@jenlennon.com
Phone: 720-454-8282
Web Site:
Laughterglow.com
Workshop Description: Combining elements of Authentic Movement, meditation, and non-judgmental witnessing, we will co-create a fun and safe container in which to to explore a deeper and more embodied connection with your self while relating with others, and allow oneself to be moved by deeper impulses beyond our cognitive, day-to-day mind. No previous experience necessary. Wear comfortable clothes, and be prepared to leave your mental conclusions about how your body wants to move behind.
Bio: Jennifer Peck, LCSW, CMT— With a strong preference for “beginner’s mind”, despite 20 years of experience studying and teaching bodywork, mindfulness, spirituality, dance, and movement, Jennifer provides a container where students feel safe to “come as they are” in their exploration of all things body-mind-spirit related. Jennifer is also a licensed psychotherapist and massage therapist with a private practice in mind-body counseling, coaching, and transformative bodywork.
Certifications: CMT LCSW
Email: willowomoon@yahoo.com
Phone: 303-817-7912
Web Site:
Workshop Description: Modern Belly Dance has many ancient roots from the Near East, Turkey and Persia to the more modern fusion American Tribal ensemble style. The musical interaction component is what gives a spark to the performance and makes for deeper connections between dancers and musicians. Explore some basics for warm up, some rhythms for grounding, and lots of improvisation for the joy of moving to the mesmerizing melodies and driving rhythms of world music. Our 80 minute session will have several sections that will play out including a few fun drills, how to hear and interpret phrases, how to pass off leads, how to hear and dance out free improvisation introduction as well as rhythmical improvisation, and even learn to recognize melodic phrases from a folk composition. Wear loose comfortable clothing and a hip scarf if you have one!
Bio: Meg York has played music for over thirty years and has a clarinet performance degree. She recently returned from Istanbul, Bursa, and Izmir, Turkey and continues her passionate study of Ottoman music performance. She specializes in Taksim, or melodic improvisation, and also is well versed in Arabesque and Balkan rhythms, phrases and melodies. She has taught music and dance to many different age groups and loves playing with dancers. It's super fun! www.megyork.com
Julia Moon has known Meg York since before dirt. . .
Julia has a background in theater arts and began her belly dancing career in 1990. She has studied a variety of styles, as has performed in troupes and as a solo artist. She has a passion for sewing and costume design and is the owner of Unicorn Belly Dance Supplies.
Fitch travels international as part of Trevor Hall's touring trio. He is a madman on percussion. Learn from a highly skilled expert, as Doug leads participants through using a percussive set up as a drumset.
Workshop Description: Bodytales is s a creative and healing practice that integrates movement, voice and personal storytelling. This unique form combines elements of dance, theater and expressive arts, and encourages and supports people being in their true, creative, authentic selves. This is a chance to share, be seen, explore, create and express. A super engaging and rich form. COME PLAY with Rani.
Bio: Rani is a long time meditator, dancer & professional massage therapist and bodyworker. She has her Masters degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. Rani has a genuine love and care for people and our humanity. She brings her open heart, warmth, playfulness and years of knowledge and experience to support others to deepen, dive in and delight in the journey of awakening to their aliveness and potential!
Workshop Description: In Contacting the Dark movement, touch, and vocalization are freed of the constraints of vision, verbalization, and social radar. It is a group somatic sensory exploration where you are encouraged to rediscover the joy of shared, creative, and embodied play.
Contacting the Dark is a easy entrance to the soft touch and nourishment that you can sometimes get in Contact Improvisation. It is practiced blindfold and within a safe container. Come discover satisfaction and richness of experience as you Contact the Dark. Please wear comfortable clothing that it is easy to move in.
Find out more at
Or join the FB group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/contactingthedark/
Damian Leuthold LMT - is a somatic counselor, movement educator, manual therapist, event producer, and music and dance performer. He is passionate about bringing people together in fun, vibrant, awakened ways. He has long had a strong interest in sharing his joy in the healing and freedom that comes from increased awareness of the somatic experience. This has lead him to form
Be in Touch where he:
Offers individual manual therapy, aquatic therapy, and somatic counseling sessions
Produces the Deep Play Retreats and Contacting the Dark events
Co-directs the Brook institute’s Integrated Man Program
Holds space for ritual performance, music, and movement
Certifications: LMT, NLC, BodyMind Somanatics
Email: damian@beintouch.us
Phone: 720-310-0273
Web Site:
beintouch.us
By ‘games’ we mean fun, highly interactive partner and group exercises that demonstrate and explore authentic relating, getting to know yourself better while at the same time learning to see and appreciate more about everyone you connect with.
By ‘authentic’ we mean that there is no cookie-cutter mold for how you “should” be or what relating “should look like”. Everyone is a complete universe unto themselves, has a unique style, personality, and integrity that is perfectly *them*, and everyone is perfect and amazing as they are (including their belief that they aren’t.)
They are safe places for taking risks, practicing the art of relating with others, playing a little more outside our comfort zones and discovering more about ourselves than we might in our everyday lives.
They’re also a chance to have fun and party in a conscious way with great people, going beyond small talk and expected (and sometimes boring) social norms.
Bios:
David Ortolano:: The Founder and Executive Producer of the Boulder International Fringe Festival, David Ortolano brings together a unique sense of ritual with live performance and public events to develop new forms of ensemble practice, influence social change and create significant artistic movements in our culture. His revolutionary techniques are influenced by the Balinese Topeng and Gamelan Ensemble, Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater, Mudra Theater, Dharma Art, Lecoq Physical Theater and a broad range of professional experience in Music, Dance, Theater and Film production. In the past 20 years he has trained and worked professionally as a Producer, Director, Teacher and Multi-Disciplined Performer in many parts of the world including Indonesia, Spain, France, and various parts of the United States and Canada.
Email: david@boulderfringe.com
Phone: 720-526-9114
Meg York:: Recently returned from studying Ottoman Classical and Tzgani (Romani) clarinet styles in Turkey, award winning Meg York has played music for over 30 years. She has a Clarinet Performance Degree from the University of New Mexico, where she also honed Early Music and Flamenco skills. Comfortable with performance practices from Medieval to Avant Guard, she plays with world music masters. She is also a seasoned pit orchestra player for music theater, circus arts, and improvised movement accompaniment. She is also Vice President of Musical Missions of Peace, a non-profit for music preservation and therapy for refugee communities, started for Iraqi populations.
Certifications: Clarinette performance degree, Music Director Evergreen Academy
Email: megaclarinoodle@gmail.com
Phone: 303-803-8321
Web Site: www.megyork.com
www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org
